{"id":1987,"date":"2003-10-26T05:51:03","date_gmt":"2003-10-26T05:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2003-10-26T05:51:03","modified_gmt":"2003-10-26T05:51:03","slug":"another-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=1987","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER OPTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>New York Times <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/26\/business\/yourmoney\/26tute.html?ei=5062&#038;en=1456c0d1976ff044&#038;ex=1067745600&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;partner=GOOGLE&#038;adxnnlx=1067165127-QqjNWy0uUZ42r4kJTZZ91w\">writes <\/a>about parents who are giving up on homeschooling in favor of paid tutors.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three years ago, Carolyn Scott, who with her four daughters raises and trains show ponies in Mukwonago, Wis., gave up on home schooling, she said, because she found it hard to be both mother and teacher. And while she thought that an experienced professional could do better, she did not want to send her children to schools because that would cut into family time.<\/p>\n<p>So Mrs. Scott and her husband, Jay, who runs a family foundation, hired their own teacher. With the help of Ellen Sternig, owner of Learning Exchange, a for-profit tutoring and test preparation center in nearby Brookfield, they found a tutor who charged $20 an hour to teach the girls at home for four hours on weekday mornings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>$20 an hour seems pretty cheap to me.  And in NY, no less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times writes about parents who are giving up on homeschooling in favor of paid tutors. Three years ago, Carolyn Scott, who with her four daughters raises and trains show ponies in Mukwonago, Wis., gave up on home schooling, she said, because she found it hard to be both mother and teacher. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}